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The Honoured Society - The Sicilian Mafia Observed (Paperback, New edition)
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The Honoured Society - The Sicilian Mafia Observed (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R388
Loot Price R322
Discovery Miles 3 220
You Save R66 (17%)
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It is hard to believe that the American Allies during World War II
returned the Mafia to power after Mussolini came close to
destroying it. This event and other tales of corruption and murder
in Sicily are expertly recorded by travel writer Lewis in this
eye-opening look at the world's most famous criminal organization -
the 'honoured society', as they called themselves, which demands
blind obedience but will defend their members through thick and
thin. Most interesting is the illumination of the Mafia mentality
and its complete separation from the outlook of the ordinary
criminal. Includes thought-provoking black and white photographs.
(Kirkus UK)
the best book on the Mafia in Sicily - its origins, its code of
honour, its secrecy and its brutality. A chilling insight. -
reveals how Mafia violence and corruption crept even into every
aspect of Sicilian society, including the police and the church -
and how this was only possible with the help of the American army,
who gave the Mafia, by then all but destroyed by the Fascist
government, the kiss of life when they occupied the island in 1943
- the perfect companion for any traveller to Sicily, and a gripping
armchair read
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